Thought for the day...

A useful burden becomes light.


The poor man’s wisdom is as useless as a palace in a wilderness.


You can’t put beauty into the pot, nor loveliness into the kettle.


If you can’t push, pull; if you can’t pull, please get out of the way.

 

If the light serves to see, it also serves to be seen.


A small river comes sooner to the sea than a great one.


Men’s beliefs often change with the changing fashions.


It is as common for men to change their taste as it is uncommon for them to change their inclination.

 

A man as unstable as water shall not excel.


A double-minded man is a post in the mud, swinging to and fro.


The word of an unstable man is a bundle of water.


You can’t ride two horses at the same time.

 

He who stands hesitating between two churches returns without prayer.


A vagrant is everywhere at home.


An honest man is seldom a vagrant.


A coward’s fear may make a coward valiant.

 

A man is valued according to his own estimate of himself.


One who makes light of himself is slighted by others.


Pebbles lie undisturbed, but jewels do not.


The more women look in their glass the less they look in their house.


Woman is as variable as a feather in the wind.

 

A woman’s vengeance has no bounds.


He that would catch a fish must venture his bait.


Nothing ventured, nothing gained.


He that does not venture must not complain of bad luck.


Boldly ventured is half won.


He who would catch fish must not mind getting wet.

 

One wise man’s verdict outweighs all the fools.


A cracked vessel is known by its sound; a cracked mind by the tongue’s speech.


Don’t look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.


Vice makes virtue shine.


What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

 

Happy the man who can endure with calm the highest and the lowest fortune.


When we have we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.


Victory belongs to the most persevering.


Right on our side, doubt not of victory.

 

In victory, the hero seeks the glory, not the prey.


It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.


Pursue not a victory too far: you may provoke the foe to desperate resistance.


He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the world.

 

Love victory, but despise the pride of triumph.


He who returns good for evil obtains the victory.


One trouble with the world is that there are always more victors than spoils.


Be ever vigilant, but never suspicious.

 

The master’s eye makes the horse fat.


It is the enemy who keeps the sentinel watchful.


He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on guard.


The prudest person will distrust most when appearances are fairest.

 

The sleeping saint is no match for the vigilant villain.


Don’t live in a village whose mayor is a doctor.


There is more harm in the village than is dreamt of.


Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine.